Bread Machine (2007-11-16)
I got one!
I've been nagging KL for months to get a bread machine and he
wouldn't budge. It's not the cost he's worried about, it's the
space it'll take up in our miniature kitchen. But the noise from
the food processor which I'd been using to knead dough sounds like
we're drilling concrete in the kitchen! (My processor is the
cheap kind and can't quite handle a bread dough without rocking and
screaming) KL doesn't like to be seen as the ugly neighbor who
"disturbs peace", so a bread machine seems to be the solution for my
love of bread making. Now I can test the recipes in the Bread
Machine cookbook I bought in Sydney on a real breadmaker. Woohoo!
Amazon is even more efficient this time by delivering the machine
the day after we placed the order, and on a public holiday at 9pm no
less! Did they think we were in a rush to bake?!
This bread machine from Zojirushi is compact (makes one small loaf
or 300gm flour capacity), a feature which no doubt pleases KL a
lot. It now sits happily and unobtrusively beside the oven at the
far corner of the counter. Compact it may be, but besides baking
a loaf of bread with a choice of chewy, fluffy or soft texture, it
also prepares starters/biga, dumpling skin, pasta, bread, and cookie
dough. It can even bake cakes in it! The jam function is
nice but I don't think I'll be using that option much.
Today's technology is amazing. This little breadmaker is so
much more advanced than the one I had in Sydney over a decade
ago. What bread shall I make to christen my bread machine?
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